Housing for one generation, two generation and three
generation families was to be done by following all
land laws and calculating number of dwellings through
permissible built-up area.
Intend of the design was to design incremental housing and
making community spaces in between clusters. Understanding
of minimum space requirement for a living and designing on
the basis of calculations and resolving basic services was the
main focus of the studio. Dwellings were arranged in such
a way that each house gets some extra space to expand.
These spaces were in the form of terrace or left over double
volumns where the house above it can built up in near future.

One-generation unit

Two-generation unit

Three-generation unit

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MATERIAL AND
LIGHT STUDIO

Crematorium
Rancharda Village

This studio aims on the exploration of the material and
how light enters into a space. The program was to design
a Crematorium in Rancharda, Ahmedabad with twocremation spaces and other necessary functions needed in
the Crematorium.
To express light, darkness, experience, journey and feeling
of the people, rammed earth as primary and bamboo as
secondary material was taken.
Idea behind making rammed earth walls was that, each
bands of the material would create a gesture of path,
journey and life of the spirits. While bamboo was used
to design Pavilions in such a way, that it would create a
gesture of respect to the dead where people would wait
for the cremation to finish.

A 1:50 scale model
of the module used
in pavillion

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Charcoal sketches of Adalaj
step-well, to understand light
and darkness

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Folding Plate Door

Paper Door
IAAC, Barcelona

In a collaborative studio with IAAC, Barcelona, a door was
designed for Green FabLab Valldaura. Initially, groups
were made to work on different ideas and designs that
further went on solving door mechanism and working
hands-on in Fablab.
Idea was to design a foldable door which would fold in one
direction. Initially it started with understanding how folds
behaves with direction and how folds can be generated to
execute it in a different material.

Existing door from outside

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Different
iterations of
folding door
generated by
considering
direction.

A proto-type model of folding door made of
mdf and flex sheet

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Folding Plate Door

Folding Plate Door
IAAC, Barcelona

Out of all design groups, one of the designs was selected
and was to be worked further. All the groups were reoriented to resolve the design, work on mechanism, detail,
and choreography of the door.
Design idea of the door was that, each door panel would
act as an individual member which would move in series to
create a choreography and opens ups to take the form of
arch. Out of twelve timber panels, three working panels
were made in 1:1 scale in Green Fablab, Valldaura.

In these exercises, taking one module -evolving it, by
repeating - thinking it, by rhythm - creating it, by imaginingwere evolved making it generative designs.

- pattern generated in
nodebox to evolve it further in
3D

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- Design evolved by
repeating a module in
multiple possible ways.

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MANUAL SKILLS

Indology, Ahmedabad
Neembaadi, Sanand

Manual skills focuses on hands-on skills, sketching, model
making and hand rendering skills.
This excercise aims on pace measuring Indology,
Ahmedabad and making rendered drawings with pencil
color. A model was also made of the same.

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This was a pre-studio
exercise of Material and
Light studio where we
had done a case study on
Neembaadi, Sanand and
made a 1:10 scale model
with actual materials. It
mainly focused on sequence
of construction, techniques of
building with Rammed earth,
and exploring different
compositions in the same
material.

In a collaborative workshop with Terrachidia Association, a
workshop on Traditional earth building techniques was held
in Olad Edriss Oasis, Morocco. Building with rammed earth,
sun dried bricks, mud plaster and mud slab was understood
by hand-on practice.
A documentation of one of the oldest Daar house in village
was also done to understand scale, proportion, light,
typology and form of the traditional houses in Morocco.

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Documentation of Daar
house, Morocco

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ART DECO

Documenting Art deco
Ahmedabad

Art deco is a major movement in decorative arts and
architecture that originated in the 1920s in Western
Europe and The United States. The British Colonial era of
Ahmedabad also witnessed several buildings with similar
decorative and art styles.
In the following workshop, one of the art deco houses
in Ahmedabad was documented in a group on two.
Documentation in terms of photographs, drawings and
timber model was done to understand, ornamentation,
scale, proportion, detail, form and art in a bulding.